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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-16

Milton Mobiles, who is famous
for giving treas to his company
on all public and private arnivers,rIes
gave birthday luncheon 10 his four-
teen actors one day last week in Denver.
The menu bears the significant remark.
Don't ask! Old enough to vote. "-Er-
CHANGE
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i,uO in the morning uii THESE thoughts were
swallowed up In one supreme fear. She who
had never been i'll in her life lay faint and
low and well nigh breaChless.
A change had indeed come TO Shirley.
Love, tender care, rest, hope, the brightest
hopes, all had como Mt last. Had they come
too late;
Word went abroad that Shirley was dying.
Shirley, the well beloved. Once more. oven
MS when Col. Carstonc was stricken, throng
pressed about the doors of the stone house.
Men and women ana little children, the poor
and the lowly and the weak, came TO the
stone house and went away weeping and say
ing
1--WE are losing our best frcndw
Within its walls Brownie. the Maynard,
the sclf.indulgent and light of thought, flung
herself down and wcpt most bitterly of all
Into the blamclcss, marvellous life had
passed the music of the poem which Shirley
had never written.
ono by one the friends who were the nearest
crcpt with awe stricken faces 10 the room with
the western windows, out Of which Shirley
had gn2cd SO often and 80 YEARLY, and lOnged
tu nv away and follow the sun in his flight.
Shirley know them OIL The clear, great
brain never los. itself. But most of all her
eyes turned YEARLY toward the sky where
the western sun was going down. Clouds Of
gold aud purple, of crimson and opal lay all
along the way, like unto the opening of the
gates Of the celestial city
She turned her eyes back upon her dear
ones. Her glance wandered n moment, then
nycd itself ON "A little locked ebony box, of
quaint, antique workmanship. 1t had been
her fathers
az. IL. ~ 4
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CHAPTER XIV.
ADDENDUM,

After all Shirley did not die. Thank God
for that!
The beautiful spirit touched the border,
yea, even looked through the portal into the
beyond. But the love and outstretched,
clinging arms of hundreds of praying souls
brought it back to earth again.
Shirley came back as one from the dead
In June, when the bluegrass on the lawn
was brightest and the roses reveled in their
richest bloom, she was married to Philip
Dumoray, y long journey followed. They
sailed to isles of far southern seas to lands of
palm trees and paradise birds, lands where
it is always morning.
Shirley has not yet quite recovered. The
break down of her strength was too COM
plete. And the poem is not yet written.
She speaks of it sometimes, and then the mas
ter says;
SHIRLEY, dear, your life is a poem. You
or any other could have written none greater
than that"
The master will pass into history as one of
the great men of his day. He stands among
mera knight without fear and without re-
proach. Wise through suffering, tolerant to
all weakness but his own, strong as a lion,
yet gentle and chivalrous and kindly to all
mankind, tender and helpful to the weak, to
women and to children-who is there like
himl
In Robert Dumoray's house you will see
picture 1t shows you Il splendidly beautiful
face, full of inspiration and power, with a
look of unfathomable melancholy lingering in
the eyes. They draw you with a strange re-
sistless magnetism, these dark gray eyes; they
follow you and look into yours, whichever
way you turn, like those of portrait by the
old Venetian. They haunt you forever. You
would say it is an ideal head if you did not
know.
1t is the portrait of Shirley, the one Alice
painted. Above the picture hangs wreath
of silver laurel leaves 1t is the crown the
Linwood villagers placed on the poet girls
head when she was 49,
There are signs of late though that the lost
inspiration is returning. There are faint vet
clear hints that into the new life which was
given her from the grave itself will come
dreams and visions sweeter grander than any
the old time knew. When these are fully
revealed the poem will he written.
Then too, where she so nearly failed through
her heroic unselishness. others viii win.
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woulu upnolu ner ana encourage her while
she wrote. No more WEAKNESS or self sacrifice
for her. no moro sorrow or loneliness for
either. Light had broken for them both
lie hastcncd to cgone At the moment of
starting an unexpected business matter held
him back till next day. e swallowed his
Impotence, and waited. Another letter from
Shirley in the morning. lie opened it and
was stunned to read:
There Is great news for you. ] have
found your sons
The rest Of the letter left no doubt of the
truth. Every point of Information was sup
piled, even to mention of the turquoise ring
1t was one he had given to Myra in the days
of their brief, foolish COurt,hip The unfortu-
nate woman had passion for jewels, which
chung TO her even in her Crazud condition.
Beyond doubt, then. she had removed the
children aud her jewel box from the house
before she fired it. The burglar, prowlng
there in the midnight, had taken both. 1t
was the ring which sealed the foolish engage
mcnt that at last made it possible to trace the
boys.
No, not link was missing from this strange
story. Shirley did not say where his boys
were, however She merely told him she
knew where they were. Boys! Why, they
must be men long since.
As he settled himself in the train he was
half dazcd with surprise and joy lie, the
lonely and kndredcss among mcn-WIc,
children, home, all that men hold dearest,
were to be his at last. In strange, happy
dream he turned his face once more toward
Linwood. But most Of all he Rugged TO his
heart the letter that contained only the one
golden word:
''( 'OInpiM
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1.-The king whom you love and serve make
You as your father and bring you where he
is in peace Amen
Shirley seemed to be thinking of something
else, She spoke presently, hut only those
nearest her heard what she was saving. She
was looking at Philip Dumoruy. He listened
intentlv:
Il have begun my poem. Won't YOU read
what have written, and tell me what You
think of 1t to-morrow-when | am not so
tired, Mr.. Morrison"
"She thinks you are Mr. Morrison" said
Harry in choking voice. she had teacher
of that name once, long ago, and she was
very much attached to him. Let her think
so, Mr.. Dumoray. 1t peases her"
But he, the man who stood there with
breaking heart, watching with an awful fear
lest his last, fairest earthly hope drift away
from him out upon the ocean of eternity-he
knew better.
Her eyes turned once more to the sinking
sun. Her lips moved again, but those about
her heard no sound. The master bent lower,
if haply he might catch word. She seemed
to be repeating something He listened with
tense ear. He heard her murmur a fragment
of verse He knew afterward that it was
from her unfinished poem, the last two lines
she had written
Her last earthly thought seemed to be for
the poem which was not written.
That faint, tluttering breath, was it indeed
the lastl
The master fell upon his knees and buried
his face in the pillows beside her face One
mighty sob broke from him as if his heart
was bursting. He lifted his head and said
brokenly:
Would God had died for thee"
Whatever might have been, was it never to
be' Whatever she had borne so long in
silence, of disappointed hope, of heartache, Of
pain and WEAKNESS, of sacrifice, yea, of mar
tyrdom, was it over now?
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CHAPTER XIII.


And Shirley Well, at last something hap
Iened to Shirley.
She had given over looking for anything
new in her existence. Once she had dreamed
that change might come, but that was long
since. She had ceased to think about it. She
sci her face forward, and drifted on with the
tide of years So far as existing for herself
went her life was a steady repression.
The children were nearly all Off her hands
now
They're credit to you. Shirley" said our
I'D friend, Mis- Simpkins. "They'vc all done
splendid
Tom, the laundering brother. came home
Tor the family reunion at Christmas 1t was
The first time he had set foot in the stone
honse since he left it Mt the age of 22, being
NJ that time under bit of O cloud. But Tom
90 had redeemed himself nobly. lie had gone
20 work with will, and the good that was
m him came uppermost.
Tom affected wild western ways tremen-
icosly, He wore big beard and a slouched
nat. He said the east crowded him up, and
he ionged to get back to tho plains and the
mountains, where he had room to breathe
and turn around He was fond of leaning
up against something, resting upon ono leg,
with his hat on and his hands in his pockets,
3hewing tobacco the while and talking gor-
geousfy about the west. Tom had got a
sssty habit Of chewing tobacco after no went
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ltcader. can YOU believe that the Creator
allie g one third OF mankipd with "A dis, ase for
winch there Is no r mclyt Or. 4. V. p crces
Golden Medical Discovery" ha. cured hun.
dredS ot ca.'s OF consumption. and men are
living to day-hcdlthN, robust men whom
physicians onUunced incurablc, because one
lung was most gone. S,ni ~ cents IN ,tnmns
Tor Or. Plcrco's book on consumption and
kindred ar ctiDns, Address. word. Disnen-
siry Mcdica, Association, G3 Man Street.
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never lived. Her thoughts are working in
many brains, her strong, ringing words are
shaping many a destiny. Yet again there
will be brave women who succeed. The new
revelation will be. The kingly woman OF
Shirleys fancy, strong and shining and free,
the bringer Of good tidings, the herald of the
perfect day to the race, will yet be realized
on earth. Doubt it not
THE END
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HuI1I' III U1IO PIUVuIC'
And now once more Shirley felt the old
longing to fly. Once more her spirit beat its
wings against the iron bars and looked out
into the beyond as Shirley sat alone
in the gray twilight of the short winter days.
1t was very different now. Yet she felt
within herself it was not too late. Half her
lifetime was gone, But for genius and en-
thusiasm there is no age. She was in the
flower of her intellectual life.
All these years the demands on her had
been unceasng. Yet they were not without
good. Her life was rich in knowledge and
experience She had grown wise through the
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III may nave been because lhe uhucrculrenl
oi iler 1houghO SUN ran Oh tne poem she wa
W nave "rlltch 50 ioiiS ago. may nave been
because oi lhe suffering ana leedS aue saw
u''' icarieu ol uuI!ha 'noSo oiVt'l years oil
experience puu nnirley became ABOVE ali
messenger Vi soUu 10 women iIer h''"t
went ouU apoNc al 10 tie lollerS Oh her own
ScN.
women Iai ana NEAR uhe aspiring ana am
ui'lous' inc SICK, inc weary, 'ie starving ana
Uhe heart sore, 'ho'e VINO hau Eroh'h lhcIr
wings against inc Soiiu walls mat smut IN
"oiianS me- tilpSe came 10 her' ana lhcN
poured OUT all their hearts 10 her, ana be-
Ut nc' u '',i '"'ll "iaU 'n'y might 90.
AH 9hc SIc" "'"eI anu Hci Nl9loh SI"uudLy
'ooh Ill an inc roull' horiZoh OF experience,
nh'ny thlIlSs were clear 10 nor IhuI hau bccn
""ih uoloic' ~ pcc"i'le cle"r " her tila',
iiiii,'eu 'i"J ~ 'uo Hio. a. h'"s' Ilcc''oih Oh
WI, - 'ho siVu'c'' s''" i"i nu''ii"i'S, man
anu ""n'''n ai'At'
'Hv ,""@"' tnr"' ~ i'''ie"cc i"'h!hS
i'iCnciS because 1t 10 "n''
one 'a"S,U 'ne'' 10 'ooN i'''o 'he near1 OF
.niiSS, an" "Ah' N'c 'ouI"Se' WILL lltcl-
IectIal power Uhe Str'hsUn 10 ach'eVe' quail
t'eS thaV uelonS ohIy 10 ilel'
Tie poi"V''' o''I ~ '',ci'' '''"o Uhe personal
,'clil'eS "n' ','"li vi "oiiiH count
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.,".'i ..'''i man '''''"' v. "",i"" ma
- "'''''' ''', ,'V' "'''e' .te "'i ''"'ii7
on III i'' 6i".l" ''"o H"'"ci 'ne'n HOW "r-
anu p'iy Sioos ',ai SnPt'Sti
t'oiio , i,'l7 %o"'il ii',i'u am, o'uS
nave Deem Taught Dy hiedicai men through
hOary centuries. lhey stand only because no
woman contradicts them.
Out of the strength drawn from the bitter
c,p she herself had drained tbouoh tLnv
Lno,v II MAJ ebo.,,oe ,,Io r., tolI +ho,,, ,L,t Il,
.iIal ',I..,sI,; '''''.
'.i' W 't,'i''Pp,'.'' Pni
iuiiy small thlhS' mat the road TO WIS" con-
tent was to lose sight of their own emotions
and sorrows in the culture of the mind in
broad human interests. Then suffering win
no LONGER he the lot of woman
She bade them, ninging away as far as
may DE Their personal hopes, fears and dis,
appointments 10 keep step with the grand
music of the onward cycles of time.
She told them to see to it that they did not
lie like clods to be trodden under foot or
sIorod o,,t ~ .o ,,o, r,'+ .,,a4 tt.,'' 1 ~
La 49, ,,1 ,,.l,,.;,'' r . I'i'''
w up '.''I "'i N'"9 W. INC Pios'',N VI
WoHlahklHu TOWARDS the HSht-WoNhalilnu,
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a BRAVE REQUEST.
saltLake City, Utah

The Dry Benchers come to the front
again with their perennial appeal for
water. Is regularly as the SHOWS melt
and the summer sun casts its rays upon
the northern slope, those afflicted and
thirsty people cry aloud for moisture.
We were all in hopes that when the
maing was laid over the mountain and
strung above the Benchers the wall for
wet would be hushed and peace and
quiet would reign in that agitated quar-
ter Of the corporation; but that hope,
like 50 many others, has been dashed,
and on Tuesday evening the thirsty
denlzens Of the bench, 129 strong, sent
their regular spring appeal in to the
Council.
Goodness knows there is not q hui
maue-minded man, woman or child re-
siding within the metes and bounds
of the municipality who would not
shout with exceeding joy ii that
parched and arid bench were abun-
dainty supplied with the precious fluid,
and every house between the upper
ditch and the tops of Twin Peaks had
pure and refreshing water in every
room. But don't our northeastern
friends think they are asking little too
much in their request of Tuesday even
ing? OF the signers of the petition,
% agree to take the water and pay the
regular rates for service if the city will
lay the mains along the lateral
streets from A to ]. We don't know
howfLng these streets are, but it is GER
tain that some miles OF mains would be
required to fill them, and the cost would
be,,many thousands of dollars. Itstrikes
US that the proposition is SO unreason-
able as to border upon the ridiculous.
The municipal taxes and the water rates
combined, collected from the district
asked to be piped, would not pay the
interest on the first cost price OF the
mains Assuredly the city treasury is
not in a condition to incur the expense
of laying water mains in a sparsely set
tied and by no means wealthy district
while thickly populated streets, which
would pay ten dollars for every one
which the north bench could pay, dis
tlnce considered, for water service, are
N thOut main pipes. The North
Benchecs confess that it is out OF the
question tor them to pay the so cents
per foot assessment for the mains.
Many of the lots would not fetch in the
real estate market the amount of the
tax. Then if the people can neither
pay for taking the water to them, nor
for the service after the water has been
carried to their doors, is it fair or just
that they should expect others to bear
the expenseP
We would all like to see the water
spread over the bench, and would all
like to hear the last of the pitiful wall
which has been sounding these many
years, but we must confess an inability
to fiud the merit or real justice in this
last appeal to the City Council.
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a SINGLE Room, FURNISHED,
IN A NEW HOUSE AND PLEASANT LO-
L cality, near the Eagle Gate. Furniture
new and complete. To let at reasonable
terms to one or two gentlemen.
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A POINTED QUESTION.

Johann Most, the wild-eyed and
wide-mouthed Anarchist, was address
ing a meeting in New York a week ago
last Sunday evening, and in the midst
of an oratoricaI flight, when a young
man, in clear and firm voice, asked
him if he lever did days work out
side of jsil?" The effect was wonder
iuI, and was described by a newspaper
reporter as folloWs:a Most looked
around wildly, in bewlldered hesitation
He dropped into chair. The meeting
was at once adjourned. Like that great
aLI-powerful sentence, Let there be
light, and there was light Peter Mey-
er's question shed a ray OF illumination
on Most which showed him off instantly
in his true light to all the crowd. 1t is
a pity there is not always on hand at
these agitators' meetings q man with the
audacity to PROFOUND similar question $
to the howlers who are forever trying
to lead the ignorant and uawary astray
and make living by duping poor fel
lows whose necessities make them easy
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PENNSYLVANIA HAS finally adopted
the high license system, but the new
law contains so many impracticable
provisions and so many rules and regu-
lations, that it is feared the law will not
be the success that its advocates hope
for Reforms, to be successful, must
be wrought by degrees; they cannot be
achieved in a minute. Drastic legisla-
ton can hardly ever be enforced to ad-
vantage when it follows immediately
lax laws. One of the provisions of the
new act imposes q fine of $500 on any
one who sells or gives away liquor on,
Sunday. 1t is simply ridiculous to say
that such measure can be enforced in
community where little effort has
been made to suppress the Sunday
liquor traffic. The people will not ap-
prove of any such severe penalty, and
will frown upon any attempt to enforce
the provision; and when the great ma
jority of the people themselves oppose
the application OF the law, the statute
must practically ieil. There are other
provisions OF the Pennsylvania law
equally drastic and improbable OF exc
cution. a law which cannot be applied
by reason OF its severity or unreason-
ableness, had better be erased from the
books, for law rot enforced is worse
than no law on the subject.
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ON SUNDAYS.
Leave Salt Lake City at 10 am. and 4 p m,
returning arrive at Salt Lake City
at and pm.

FARE, on any Train, to Garfield and
Return, so cents.
Liberal terms given to Sunday Schools,
Societies, etc, getting up excursions.
Special Trains may be chartered at nom
inal sum and made ready at short notice.
8. z. FENTON, W. " RITTER,
G. +. and P. A. Sapt.
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POsTMAsTER-G GENERAL Villas is able TO
present some figures as to the expense
of his department which show that his
management has been careful and
efficient, and which are decidedly en-
couraging. The original estimate of the
deficiency for the year ending June 80
prozimo, was s7.5OO0OO, and in his last
report Mr.. Villas said the shortage
would fall below 100000. With the
actual expenses before him, the Post
masterGenersl now says the deficiency
will not exceed $3,873, 492. One of these
days, the postofice department will be
sef-supporting, Notwithstanding the
two-cent postage and the remarkable
extension OF the postal service during
late years.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
WANTED.

A YARD MAN APPLY AT THE WHITE
Il House.
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THE EDITOR of the Wymroe (Neb.)
Ua5On is in an unpleasant position. He
says there is man at Beatrice, armed
with q squirt-gun, that is loaded
with an accumulation Of sour bile and
the concentrated essence of sewerage
filth" the weapon being pointed in ths
direction Of the Union editor. It oc
ours to Us that the Union man should
either run or hoist an umbrella.
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victims to the wiles and promises OF
the tongue-clever rogues. In nine
cases out of ten the labor agitator,
the man who manipulates and leads the
wUrkingmen, inducing them to strike
against their best interests and to be-
come snobs. is fellow who never works
except with his jaws. He is cunning
rascal who manages to live off the poor
fellows who are unable to support
themselves and their families decently.
The platform anarchist is the chap who
incites the weak minded and incautious
to acts of violence and attempts to
overthrow governments, but when dam
ger appears he skips and hides. If
there are bombs to be thrown, he in
duces others to throw them while he
runs. Most himself when arrested year
or so ago. was found hiding under the bed
of his mistress. The Socialists who are
so brave with their mouths are dis
picable towards when 1t comes to &C
ton. If there were Peter Meyers
everywhere to PROFOUND conundrums
to the workingmens agitators, the
Socialists, orators and the Anarchist
blatherskites, the real laborers, the
men who work with their hands and cot
with their mouths, might oftener have
their eyes opened, and escape many of
the evils which now aff1ict them be
cause Of their ignorance and suscep-
tibility to the cunning arts of tbs Mosts,
the Schwabs. the Spies and the Kear-
neys The lot of the laborer would be a
much happier one if he would cut loose
from controlling societies, steer clear
of agitators and attend strictly to- his
own affairs.
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THE UNION PACIFIC must have wanted
Potter, its new manager, very much.
The newspapers report that bis salary
is SAC, 900 a year, and now it is said that
in addition to this the company gave
him a bonus of $40 900, making his first
years pay $4,000.